A Valentine Luncheon for couples

Good Sam hosts annual event

February 11, 2013

On Monday, Feb. 11, Estherville Good Samaritan Society held its annual Couples Valentine Luncheon with seven couples enjoying a wonderful romanic dinner complete with personal wait service, a sparkling toast and a framed photo as a memento.

Members of local homeschool families assisted with the dinner, and the Midweek/Catechism youth of Immanuel Lutheran decorated and donated picture frames for the event.

Altogether, 363.5 years of marriage were represented by the attending couples . . . real-life models of what the words "for better or for worse, in sickness and in health", really mean.

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Ben and Martha Haigh took time for a photo under the ballon arch during the Couples Valentine Luncheon at the Good Samaritan Center on Monday.EDN photo by Michael Tidemann

The couples included Larry and Dora Aldrich, Roger and Rachel Moe, Albert and Cece Finnegan, Clem and Dorothy Mergen, Gerald and Bernice Weber, Ben and Martha Haigh and Maurice and Dorothy Thompson.

Estherville Area Christian Homeschool students and parents assisting were Elizabeth and Natalie Lausen and their mom, Kohlene; Christina and Isaac Jorgenson and mom, Deb; and Ruth and Ethan Marth and mom, Bobbie Sue.